tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-47949705915074545252024-03-05T12:03:52.253-05:00The Bombay TalkiesBombay Talkieshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15085252038295646746noreply@blogger.comBlogger119125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4794970591507454525.post-61281250455275906962014-10-10T12:11:00.000-04:002014-10-10T12:11:15.977-04:00Happy Birthday Rekha!<div style="text-align: left;">
The great lady turns 60 today. Happy birthday Rekha!</div>
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Bombay Talkieshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15085252038295646746noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4794970591507454525.post-3195847772476093832014-10-09T20:27:00.000-04:002014-10-09T20:39:36.876-04:00Have You Watched "The Bollywood Episode?"<!--[if !mso]>
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</xml><![endif]-->TV shows have been doing one-off episodes forever.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Christmas episodes, reunion episodes,
"very special" episodes which helped teach us kids not to do drugs (<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Saved By the Bell</i> anyone?) and where
babies come from—these were a staple when I was growing up.<br />
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But more and more producers are writing a new type of "very
special" episode: the Bollywood episode.<br />
Bollywood is still a bit of a novelty in most parts of the United States,
and the success of films like <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Slumdog
Millionaire</i> and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Bride and Prejudice</i>
have TV studios jumping on the India bandwagon faster than you can say
"Jai Ho."<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><br />
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The result has been a flood of Bollywood-themed plot lines on shows ranging
from daytime soap operas to popular sitcoms (and everything in between!), and while
most of these episodes are written in an honest and good-hearted attempt at
having fun, some miss the mark badly and veer dangerously close to mockery.<br />
<br />
Without further adieu, here are some of the best (and worst) Bollywood episodes
I've come across.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Which ones have you
seen, and which shows (if any) managed to nail that special <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">filmi</i> style?<br />
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<i>(linked titles to go Youtube videos where available, which weren't embedding properly at the time I wrote this post!)</i> <br />
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<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=awe4boXT8TA"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Passions</b></a><br />
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The hilariously bad soap opera featured a couple desperate to escape the
plotting of a man-hungry woman, so they plan to run away to India
together.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Cue the dream sequence, which
involves not-so-bad dancing and hilarious music (sample lyric: "I'm tired
of your meddling, get lost Theresa!")<br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Hotel Babylon</b><br />
<br />
Late night British soap/drama Hotel Babylon started its fourth season with a
bang when a wedding at the hotel between film star Omar (Chris Bisson) and Aishia
(Preeya Kalidas) goes horribly awry.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Determined to still have a good time, the hotel staff don their best
saris, crank up the music, and dance the night away.<br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Psych</b><br />
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Sean and Gus help a man (the gorgeous Sendhil Ramamurthy) who believes he
has had a curse put on him which is causing his girlfriends to suffer tragic
accidents.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Bonus points for casting
Sendhil, I guess?<br />
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<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NvZ3QSKtYvk"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Smash</b></a><br />
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The less said about this one the better.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Poor Raza Jaffrey.<br />
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<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mmKuAe5MgxM"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">The Big Bang Theory</b></a><br />
<br />
Now we're getting to the good stuff.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Raj (played by the very funny Kunal Nayyar) expresses his love for
Bernadette (Melissa Rauch) the only way he knows how—by imagining a cheesy
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Before <i>Munni</i> and <i>Chaiyya Chaiyya</i> (in 1993, so waaaaay before in fact) Malaika Arora Khan starred in a weird little music video for the Malkit Singh/Bally Sagoo collaboration "Gur Naal Ishq Mitha," where she plays the apple of Jas Arora's eye at a wedding. He sees some sexy shoes, finds their owner, and then plots to make sure she becomes his. How...sweet.<br />
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Anyways, check out the <i>Chaiyya Chaiyya</i> girl before she became a star--and enjoy some fab Punjabi tunes at the same time!<br />
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Bombay Talkieshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15085252038295646746noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4794970591507454525.post-84003638956983571382011-08-09T14:21:00.000-04:002011-08-09T14:21:28.450-04:00"Mausam" Poster: Seriously GorgeousLove love love this. I've been ambivalent about the film (I haven't really been digging what Shahid's been doing since Jab We Met) but I do love Sonam and so far all the trailers and song promos have looked really promising.<br />
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Bombay Talkieshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15085252038295646746noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4794970591507454525.post-82921062042975880562011-08-09T08:57:00.000-04:002011-08-09T08:57:45.232-04:00My Biggest Bollywood Pet PeeveIn an earlier life, before I was a Bollywood fan and Occasional Blogger of Things of Dubious Importance, I was a cellist. Not, you know, a concert cellist or anything, but a pretty decent cellist nonetheless. I knew how to do all the important things, like how to play open string notes on the strings below them because I was too lazy to tune my instrument properly, and how to make a really whiny noise by turning my bow upside down (or playing on the wrong side of the bridge). <br />
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Most importantly, I knew how to hold my damn instrument in a way that made people think I wasn't touching a cello for the first time.<br />
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Your move, Kat:<br />
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I don't expect film stars to be the reincarnation of Pablo Casals or anything, but it takes maybe thirty seconds to look up a picture of Yo-Yo Ma and check out what he's doing with his right hand. And his left one, for that matter. Look at her! She's not even playing a real note! She's got her fingers in a squished up version of first position on the A <i>and</i> the D string, but her bow is on the C string! <i>Cheeee!</i><br />
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This has got to be my biggest pet peeve in the history of the world right here: actors who play musicians who can't be bothered to try and look authentic. We all know Katrina Kaif isn't playing the cello but would it kill her to try and look the part? <br />
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Lest anyone think I'm picking on Katrina, let's check out some other offenders. Like Rishi "I'm just gonna put some fingers on some strings and hope it looks good" Kapoor.<br />
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Or this. WHAT IS THIS I CAN'T EVEN OMG. Are you going to play that or eat it? Because based on what you're doing here I'm leaning towards the eating.<br />
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Here's Akshay, demonstrating that it may take two Bollywood stars to film a romantic scene but only one to fuck up the violin. <br />
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Sigh. The less said about this the better. If only I could find a job teaching the violin where there was no requirement that I actually be able to play the violin.<br />
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Long story short: Katrina, if you ever decide to film Yuvraaj 2 (and I think we can all safely say we hope that never happens), here's some study material for you. <br />
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Memorize this. For my sanity.Bombay Talkieshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15085252038295646746noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4794970591507454525.post-80580223164126148062011-08-08T22:47:00.002-04:002011-08-08T22:47:58.414-04:00Song of the Day--Paayaliya (Dev D)<div style="text-align: center;"><object height="349" width="425"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/69ysTYhSet8?version=3&hl=en_US"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/69ysTYhSet8?version=3&hl=en_US" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="425" height="349" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true"></embed></object></div>Bombay Talkieshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15085252038295646746noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4794970591507454525.post-45756565844290145092011-08-07T07:54:00.004-04:002012-04-18T22:29:21.760-04:00Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-NEkv13YW_80/Tj58BWQ2S0I/AAAAAAAAAuA/-i6yUOiqR50/s1600/tomatina.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="235" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-NEkv13YW_80/Tj58BWQ2S0I/AAAAAAAAAuA/-i6yUOiqR50/s400/tomatina.png" width="400" /></a></div><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal">I put on the Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara soundtrack today to chase away some rainy day blues.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">A week ago I wouldn’t have given that CD a second thought.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">In all the excited buildup to Zoya Akhtar’s sophomore film I felt like the person who got left behind at the rest stop and didn’t really mind. I was psyched for the trip but the further we got the less enthused I was feeling.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><blockquote><div class="MsoNormal"><i>“Zoya! Farhan! Hrithik! Abhay! I’ll pack my stuff!”</i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><i><br />
</i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><i>“Spain! Hmm…this is starting to look like a tourist brochure…maybe I’ll just come for a few days.”</i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><i><br />
</i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><i>“Katrina’s coming? Ugh. Fine. Look, I’ll tag along but I’m not going to be nice to her.”</i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><i><br />
</i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><i>“What the hell is this music we’re listening to? No. No, I’m good. You guys go ahead, I’ll hitch a ride home.”</i></div></blockquote><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">And then I saw the film. And I fell in love. </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">Was the film flawed? Yes. </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">Did I completely forget every criticism I had of the film five minutes after I left the theater?</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal">I hesitate to even continue typing at this point—this is my third attempt to capture a piece of what I felt after viewing ZNMD and I’m finding it impossible. I just erased four thousand words of…of what, exactly? Fawning praise of some camera work and criticisms that don’t need to be explained. We all know the gentle negatives of the film: the intro was too long and fluffy, the characters live in a world of wealth outside the reach of most of those who will see the film, it veered dangerously close at times to being a commercial for the Costa Brava.<br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal">So why am I listening to Der Lagi Lekin with tears in my eyes right now?</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal">The film centers around Arjun (Hrithik Roshan), Kabir (Abhay Deol), and Imran (Farhan Akhtar), but the main character, without a doubt, is Spain. Director Zoya Akhtar said she initially had Mexico in mind for the location but I think she made the correct choice with Spain. Having had my own Spanish adventures I can say that the transformative effect of that Barcelona air isn’t just movie magic—it’s real. So real that I sometimes remember the smell of a rainy day spent wandering around Parc G<i><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-style: normal;">ü</span></i>ell and it puts me in a good mood for days. </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal">And what was Kabir afraid of? Two things, as it turned out. For most of the film we’re led to believe he was afraid of getting married, but things aren’t always as they appear. He isn’t so much afraid of marriage as he’s afraid of <i>not </i>getting married, and the disappointment of his family that would follow. He’s afraid of breaking Natasha’s (Kalki Koechlin) heart. While Arjun’s transformation is more outwardly noticeable (going from uptight, obsessed career man to a dreamy man in love), Kabir is more complex. As he argues with Natasha (first at a distance, then in person as she joins the boys out of jealousy and suspicion) the easy going personality of Kabira (as his friends lovingly call him) is chipped away, revealing a man just as much in need of catharsis as his companions, perhaps even more.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">I hesitate to compare Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara to Luck By Chance; where LBC was so plot driven and focused on the complex relationships between characters, ZNMD is more introspective. They're vastly different in their scope, though I will say that as much as I admire Hrithik as an actor, I found him more effective in LBC, where his time on screen was a fraction of what it is in ZNMD. He's so imposing that he almost overshadowed Abhay and Farhan, and while I was interested in Arjun's story line, it was Imran who I wanted more of. Farhan was stellar in his portrayal of a man who jokes his way through life as a cover for pain that he doesn't want to talk about. Abhay was the rock of the film, playing parent to Arjun and Imran and finally coming to terms with the decision he had to make. Hrithik and Katrina had wonderful chemistry, as did Farhan with Ariadna Cabrol, the Spanish actress who plays his love interest. I couldn't have been the only one who wanted their post-love scene Spanish/Hindi conversation to go on forever.</div><div class="MsoNormal"></div><div class="MsoNormal"></div><br />
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Whose Bachna Ae Haseeno was better, Rishi's or Ranbir's?<br />
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I don't think Yaaro Yaarodi holds up to Chalka Chalka Re--I've gotten used to the pace of the Hindi version and the original seems too fast and a bit jumbled. My favorite line of any song in the world, "Baabula chhoda tera anganaara," got sort of lost in Yaaro Yaarodi. Hrmph.<br />
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So which video is your favorite? It's actually a close call for me...I prefer Maddy over Vivek but Chalka Chalka Re wins for me because Rani is just so cute!<br />
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You poke at the Bachchans in public.<br />
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It would be completely unsurprising if that's what Bhairavi Goswami is doing at the moment. All that crap the other day about Aishwarya getting IVF treatments so she can continue the line of Bachchan men? Probably made up off the top of her head. She gave pretty much the <span style="color: orange;">shadiest interview ever</span> to the Times of India this weekend and it's pretty clear she's trying to act like she never said anything. So either she was lying and it got more attention than she wanted or someone tapped her on the shoulder and reminded her where she stands on the totem pole of film industry power. Namely at the bottom.<br />
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She's got a good point about the desire for male children and good for her for pointing out (yet again) the disparate levels of female vs. male children born in states like UP. But come on already with the Aishwarya stuff. Either you know something or you don't. Don't be f'ing coy, it's so tiresome. Be a doll and spill the goss' or shut the hell up.<br />
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Just saying.Bombay Talkieshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15085252038295646746noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4794970591507454525.post-73061801858586753172011-07-02T02:00:00.000-04:002011-07-02T02:00:43.503-04:00"Oh My God, My Son Is a Lesbian!"In honor of gay marriage being passed in New York State, a bit of "Goodness Gracious Me" for everyone.<br />
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<i>"<span class="messageBody" data-ft="{"type":3}">Nauseating 2 read superstars givg interviews abt wanting a girl baby whn she has gone 2 Bangkok to an IVF clinic which specializes in boy babies. Height of hypocrisy. They knw damn well its a boy, aftr all she has to produce a male heir at any cost - Typical UP mentality, no wonder that state has such high female foeticide."</span></i><br />
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<span class="messageBody" data-ft="{"type":3}">I'm of two minds on this. Bhairavi hasn't offered any proof of her claim, and I'm sort of inclined to think it's a wild claim made up for media attention. And yet...I don't find the idea of it either shocking or surprising. After a weekend spent watching <i>The Tudors</i> (where Jonathan Rhys-Meyers spends 24 episodes in a row demanding a son and divorcing and beheading the women who aren't able to give him one) the idea of a woman (particularly one who lives in a still-patriarchal society) going to the ends of the earth (or in this case Thailand) to make sure the child she's carrying is a boy isn't out of the realm of possibility.</span><br />
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<span class="messageBody" data-ft="{"type":3}">Fucking depressing, yes. Medieval, yes. Impossible? No.</span><br />
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Nokia held a competition recently which challenged participants to make a film using only Nokia cell phones. The winning film, by JW Griffiths, is called <i>Splitscreen: A Love Story</i>, and it's nothing short of remarkable.<br />
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The story line is simple and the editing is superb. There's nothing incredibly original here, the wonder is in the way it's done. It's a cute little project that shows that a film needn't be three hours long to pack a punch.<br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">*If I ever see Uday in another film after <i>Dhoom 3</i> (aka <i>Doomed 3</i>) I'm going to withdraw my love and have you expelled from my kingdom. For I'm Henry VIII I am I am, and I'm fickle like that.</span>Bombay Talkieshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15085252038295646746noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4794970591507454525.post-9425939891856172852011-06-27T06:27:00.001-04:002011-06-27T06:44:20.047-04:00Shake That Biscuit Baby<div style="text-align: right;"><br />
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